i'm elliott/hex <they/he, b. 2005sep25> this is my autism zone. noted digital cat entity and beast obsesser. i also like rhythm games and weird music and multimedia art but you won't see that as much
my icon is NoxXxy, from the webcomic phtr6g. they are not my character but i like them they're silly
i'm aroace, and i generally avoid nsfw, but i will occasionally post #pooltoy/#balloon things in nonsexual contexts (i just think they're silly) as well as the rare text joke. any reblogs from 18+ blogs will be tagged #mdni. use your filters!
i avoid exclusionists and people who look like creeps. i also have accounts on bluesky, toyhouse and the fediverse if you want me elsewhere
i am a creature who struggles with socialization; casual affection is allowed and encouraged! if i'm being weird let me know
formal announcement: i am no longer active on tumblr. i strongly recommend following me elsewhere if you'd like to keep seeing my posts. my bluesky is already linked in my pinned, and i have recently switched fediverse instances as well. you can also ask for my discord and signal
i love tumblr's format and would love to see more platforms take on its ideas, but it has become clear i have sunk a lot of time into something that has been slowly burning for a while. this account will remain up for lurking and contact purposes. to my mutuals still on here, i hope we can still be friends
formal announcement: i am no longer active on tumblr. i strongly recommend following me elsewhere if you'd like to keep seeing my posts. my bluesky is already linked in my pinned, and i have recently switched fediverse instances as well. you can also ask for my discord and signal
i love tumblr's format and would love to see more platforms take on its ideas, but it has become clear i have sunk a lot of time into something that has been slowly burning for a while. this account will remain up for lurking and contact purposes. to my mutuals still on here, i hope we can still be friends
formal announcement: i am no longer active on tumblr. i strongly recommend following me elsewhere if you'd like to keep seeing my posts. my bluesky is already linked in my pinned, and i have recently switched fediverse instances as well. you can also ask for my discord and signal
i love tumblr's format and would love to see more platforms take on its ideas, but it has become clear i have sunk a lot of time into something that has been slowly burning for a while. this account will remain up for lurking and contact purposes. to my mutuals still on here, i hope we can still be friends
what's your fursona like material/texture wise? from what i can glean its sorta liquidy but im curious about the details
let's find out?
it initially used to be some sort of glass or perhaps semisolid putty-like material, but now it's different and capable of way lower viscosity. Specifically, 0. BECs are cool so now it's some sort of shapeshifting (and property-varying) sapient superfluid thing.
as for what it feels like:
you know that feeling when you have some part of you too close to a deflagration or when turbulent mixing of air around a fire causes a lump of very hot air to brush against you (hot enough to singe fur)? specifically where you can almost feel the shape of the air?
the fire-like stuff feels like the non-thermal component of that - the impression of shape and pressure and a little bit tingly in place of that "almost got burned" feeling. Thermally, it's reflective, so it feels as warm or cold as you do.
in its normal shape, the wing bits are crystalline, kinda like ████ ██████ (██████████) but less █████-████ (█.█. ███ █████████), and ████ can probably ████ ██ the ████ ███. but yeah, same material as the rest of it but different state. if you grabbed one without asking (somehow despite the fire layer), you'd find it really slippery, quite unlike ████ ██████. if you did ask, it'd probably feel like glass.
the eyes ███ ████ ████████, it ████ ██████████ ████ ██████████████ because ██████████████. you can poke them, it doesn't mind.
like the wing shards, the bulk substance of it has a variable tactile character, but i need to go ask it what it's default consistency is. not sure whether it's normally superfluid, or imitating a normal fluid, semisolid, solid whatever. also not sure whether that changes with applied acceleration (i.e. gravity). chances are if multiple people were trying to figure out what it feels like it'd act different for each of them to mess with the group though.
the tetrahedron is an accessory, maybe texture of smooth plastic when tangible?
lastly, here's some more fun facts about it:
the superfluidity means it can voluntarily do things like go through very tiny holes or porous material [16:58] or exit containers in a silly manner [27:21]. (superfluid ³He has been found since this video (about 871x colder), and tw: the word that is also the r-slur is used for its physics meaning right before the first timestamp)
the opacity is achieved through a randomly varying refractive index usually only near the surface, this means subsurface scattering isn't exactly scattering. see here. it does this because that makes it easier to see (i.e. visually separate from the background) (and easier to draw :P). the █████ ██ ███ █████████, ████ ███ ██████████.
the tail bits can be assembled into extra paws as needed
also second sound means it makes for an efficient heatsink if you can convince it to cooperate
and here's when i left the raytracer running on some arbitrary settings and it got to a third of a million samples per pixel:
still been off tumblr lately, but in light of recent discord news my signal is hexcat.03. i'm very aware this won't replace discord (i fucking hate the phone requirement) but i'm taking the excuse to get backup contacts for people
